12/30/2007

Combined Knowledge Downloads have released a number of new White Papers:--How to move the Shared Service Provider Search databaseHow to configure a content Source to crawl Exchange 2003 public folders in MOSS 2007How to configure Email Enabled Lists in MOSS 2007 RTM using Exchange 2003How to configure Email Enabled Lists in MOSS 2007 RTM using Exchange 2007Securing Central Administration in SharePoint 2007Business Data Catalog WhitePaper Part 1--You can find them at: http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads%202007.htm---P. Erol GIRAUDYhttp://clubmoss2007.org

12/21/2007

SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 6): Planning and Deploying SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)In this first session of our six-part Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 series, see a detailed overview of the SharePoint Server 2007 architecture. We present the concepts of topology, server roles, and network conditions, and also provide an overview of administration features with SharePoint Server 2007.

Hear an explanation and usage example for each component of the three-tier administration model: central administration, shared services, and site settings.

We also explain various security topics including permissions.

Finally, we look at deployment options and use four detailed scenarios to provide considerations for determining the correct topology.

The simplest of these is a single-server deployment, and then the options progress to farm options, from small to large.Presenter: Kevin Remde, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation

A prolific blogger, Kevin Remde shares his thoughts, ideas, and tips on the TechNet Events Bloggers Web site and the IT Professional Community Web site. As a webcast presenter, he has landed on the Microsoft top 10 webcast list several times. Kevin has worked as both a developer and an IT professional, so he loves sharing helpful new solutions and technologies with his IT peers.

At Microsoft, Kevin relishes the opportunity to generate fresh ideas and run with them. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Minnesota (go Gophers!), where he also studied music theory and composition.View other sessions from: SharePoint Server: Connect People, Processes, and Information.If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

Brief Description : The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training, built on the Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit, is designed for server administrators to install on an Office SharePoint Server site to help end-users learn about Office SharePoint Server. The Training includes videos, interactive tutorials, and articles. In addition, the material is SCORM compliant. You can easily add or remove training topics to fit your business needs. The Training also includes a reporting function that allows an administrator/trainer to track learners’ completed training topics. You can customize the Training to fit the look and feel of your own Office SharePoint Server site.---P. Erol GIRAUDYPrésident du Club MOSS 2007 et MUG (MVP MOSS).http://clubmoss2007.org

11/21/2007

I have been working on a new web part that aggregates content of a specific content type into a gridview. Much like the Content Query web part, but easier to use by end-users. They just need to select the content type and the columns they want to be displayed (that’s why I called it “Content by Type”).

11/17/2007

Day 5: " Videocasts - Day 5 It is all go at TechEd IT Forum! Tune in to all the breaking announcements, interviews with key speakers, technical gurus, product managers, delegates and many more. This tab will be updated constantly - so check back regularly. Day 5Day 4Day 3Day 2 Day 1 Pre-Event ". A great TECHED 2007 with a lot of presentation, Tools, Meetings, informations, Solutions, ATE... see more information on the web site of the club : http://egiraudy.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C18447817CCB3384!476.entry

Microsoft Ask the Experts Pavilion : At the Microsoft Ask the Experts Pavilion delegates had the opportunity to meet face-to-face with Microsoft speakers, consultants, technical support service engineers, product managers, Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) and Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). With more time for drill-down scenarios and more chances to find solutions from the experts.For more information on the topics covered on the ATE, click here.

If you have a production WSS 3.0 sharepoint environment and need to copy the production data into a test environment web farm (different web farm), it can be done using SQL backups and restore.I am more comfortable using this method than using stsadm tool. This could also be helpful when your production system crashes and you need to quickly get a backup sharepoint farm up and running with the latest production data. Read this article ! With a Target farm steps ( if you are setting up a brand new WSS 3.0 farm) Restore a production sharepoint web farm to a new web farm - sam (P. Erol GIRAUDY MVP MOSS)

10/01/2007

The troubleshooting information is organized by server roles. This information is further divided according to the logical areas of interest to the administrator when monitoring and troubleshooting the server role. Within each logical area of manageability, you will find reference and troubleshooting information relevant to each event logged by services or applications that are part of the server role. WSS 3.0 Web Application (with Event ID - Source - Message) This is preliminary documentation and subject to change. A Web application is comprised of an Internet Information Services (IIS) site that has a unique application pool. When you create a new Web application, you also create a new database and define the authentication method used to connect to the database. see this link : WSS 3.0 Web Application on TECHNET. (source : Windows Server 2008 Technical Library TECHNET)

9/30/2007

SharePoint Dashboards are becoming more and more popular in corporations, especially with the increasing adoption of MicroSoft Office 2007. The latest release of SharePoint (Office SharePoint Server 2007) is packed with features and package integration points that make for powerful enterprise dashboards. SharePoint Dashboard for Marketing Campaign Tracking see also the Dashboard Spy. (P. Erol GIRAUDY - MVP MOSS 2007).

9/24/2007

Locating the appropriate information or people in an organization can be a difficult and time-consuming process. Without enterprise search services, employees at Microsoft might:- Spend countless hours duplicating effort on multiple projects and teams.- Be unaware of critical information produced by other employees.- Make business or technical decisions with incomplete or inaccurate data.- Require more technical support time and Helpdesk resources to resolve technical issues.- Require additional managerial and human resources time to address job-related issues.Microsoft IT reviewed the existing content that is indexed, existing content sources, business requirements, and technical requirements. Then, the team deployed shared enterprise search services for employees to find relevant, up-to-date information that is essential in performing their day-to-day job functions. The same enterprise search services put Microsoft employees in contact with peers all over the word, enabling them to collaborate more quickly and easily than ever before.Microsoft IT combined the Enterprise Search feature in Office SharePoint Server 2007, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003, custom-developed Web Parts, and integration with other line-of-business services and applications into its enterprise search services solution. Developing and deploying this solution provided the following benefits: read Deploying and Supporting Enterprise Search (P. Erol GIRAUDY).

9/12/2007

The Microsoft SharePoint Conference will be held from March 2-6, 2008 at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 (P. Erol GIRAUDY - MVP MOSS).

8/28/2007

Microsoft SharePoint-based Solutions: More Profitable than Open SourceIPED research shows that Microsoft collaboration-solution providers see larger, more numerous opportunities, faster growth, and up to 25-percent greater profit than competing providers who sell open-source products. And because Microsoft collaboration tools are preintegrated, building a collaboration-solutions business around Microsoft SharePoint-based solutions can cost up to 2.5 times less than with separate open-source products. Learn more. File Download

8/27/2007

Page Layouts and CSS As you can see is only a quick demonstration what you can do using a little single CSS Style. For the live solution there is a lot more involved in hiding certain areas as the layouts page also contains web parts that cannot be edited. The key to making this approach work is simply making sure that your mark-up is correct and that it is really valid XHTML. Anyway this helped me so maybe it might be useful to you. from : Liam Cleary [MVP SharePoint]

8/22/2007

SharePoint 2007 Features - View Release : "2.0 Production Release name is required This release contains useful Features for SharePoint. Each Feature is provided as a solution file (WSP) that can immediately be installed into a SharePoint farm. See the Release notes in the ZIP file for more details."

8/09/2007

Get hands-on experience with the key features and components of the 2007 Microsoft Office system and learn the benefits of deploying it within your organization. Walk through installation, configuration, and the new components around enterprise features administration, collaboration, and business intelligence. Also, experience common deployment and integration scenarios that can help you make better choices when planning your rollout. 2007 Microsoft Office System: Plan and Deploy with Confidence

8/05/2007

New York never sleeps, why should you?Infusion Development – world-class Wall Street technology consultants and published SharePoint book authors – wants to fly you to New York City – free – for the ultimate training weekend. We’ll even put you up at a first class hotel, though you won’t see much of it. For two days and nights you’ll live SharePoint and Silverlight, with training, collaboration and even competition. Our “lab-offs” will test your speed and skills, ultimately deciding who moves on to our mystery game-show. The winner will receive “Insomniac,” the developer’s machine that never sleeps. You’ll also be busy trading ideas with Microsoft MVP’s and rubbing shoulders with the hosts of .NET Rocks! If knowledge is power, we just offered you the mother-ship. Think you’ve got what it takes? Apply now. (will be nice to some meeting like that in France on MOSS 2007) Sleepless in NY (P. Erol GIRAUDY).

8/04/2007

UGO2007 - User Group OFFICE 2007: Groove 2007 Document: Operations for Office Groove 2007, Part 3 A great Book on GROOVE Server and many infos around this product working so well with MOSS and WSSv3. This book describes Groove Server capabilities, summarizes the architecture of the Groove client-server system, and provides the basis for planning a Groove deployment in an enterprise environment. The audience for this book includes IT professionals, infrastructure specialists, and business decision makers responsible for designing and implementing software-based collaboration systems. Integration with Microsoft SharePoint – Groove SharePoint Files Tool is an enhanced version of Groove Files Tool; it allows users to interact with and synchronize content between Groove and SharePoint document libraries. (P. Erol GIRAUDY).

7/31/2007

The Enterprise Content Management platforms from Microsoft and Documentum EMC can be deployed in different ways to address a range of content management requirements within a digitally driven enterprise. Working together, Microsoft and Documentum EMC make it easy for their customers to develop a content ecosystem that enhances business value. This paper describes the options available to customers who want to take advantage of both Microsoft and Documentum EMC solutions. Download details: SharePoint Server 2007 Document: Microsoft and EMC - Managing Content Across an Enterprise

Thank you for a banner year for SharePoint!Wow! What a fantastic year for SharePoint products and technologies! For those of you who haven’t seen the news yet, we just announced that SharePoint Server passed the US$800 million mark for revenue for Microsoft’s previous fiscal year (FY07) that ended on June 30th. In fact, SharePoint Server is the fastest growing server products in Microsoft’s history. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for your continued support, advocacy, and adoption of SharePoint.With these great results, it's time for a little nostalgia and some looking ahead. I have personally been working on and off the SharePoint business since 1998 – anyone remember Tahoe? When we decided to start development on SharePoint Portal Server 2001, it was a big step forward for Microsoft. We were making a big bet that collaboration, portals, content management and enterprise search would become mainstream and gain the same kind of broad acceptance that personal productivity tools such as Microsoft Office had experienced. We were growing the Exchange Server business, Outlook had just released and was growing in popularity, and Windows NT 4.0 and SQL Server were growing in enterprise usage. SharePoint was the new kid on the block, and we thought we had a winner because we had listened closely to what customers and partners were telling us and tried to put SharePoint to work solving the business problems they described.Fast forward 6 years to 2007 and 85 million user licenses later, SharePoint has exceeded our wildest expectations in terms of growth, and I hear from customers almost daily about how they’re taking advantage of the improvements in the latest versions of WSS, MOSS, and SharePoint Designer. Overall, we have over 200 MOSS 2007 case studies, but I'd like to highlight some of my favorite customer stories. Customers ranging from Del Monte to MTV to Mary Kay are running SharePoint to solve all different business problems -- click on the hyperlinks for the respective case studies. One area that has grown very fast for MOSS 2007 is moving from inside the firewall to being the platform and application of choice for customers’ extranets and Internet facing sites. My favorite ones are are Glu Mobile, Hawaiian Airlines, and Paul Mitchell. When I show these sites to other folks inside and outside of Microsoft, the first reaction is always “No way! This isn’t really a SharePoint site! It looks nothing like a team site or portal!” Exactly! And I’d expect to see many more public web sites deployed on MOSS 2007 in the next year.While we have added hundreds of new features and even entirely new capability areas such as Records Management, e-forms, and line of business integration, we are still working towards the same SharePoint vision, which is making the optimization of business productivity based a common technology infrastructure a practical reality for all users within a corporate intranet, on an extranet, or on the Internet. In future versions, we will continue to work on achieving that vision by innovating across all the product capabilities.Thanks for indulging me for a quick look back at SharePoint over the past several years. In closing, if you are an existing customer or partner, thank you very much for your continued support and usage of SharePoint. If you are a new customer or partner, thank you for getting started with SharePoint. We will work hard to make all of you enjoy every minute of your use of SharePoint and the business value you get from your SharePoint investments. Let’s keep the conversation going and continue to make SharePoint the product that you want to address your business productivity needs.Here’s to a great FY08 and continued success to all of our customers and partners! I look forward to seeing many of you at the SharePoint Conference in Seattle on March 2-6, 2008!Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Thank you for a banner year for SharePoint!

7/25/2007

In this webcast, we describe how migration of the Microsoft Human Resources Web content platform to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 enables: Faster future development. Reduction of 50% custom code, resulting in business and IT agility. Lower sustenance costs. Essential capabilities for future state architecture. Alignment with the Microsoft IT global vision for simplification. In the past, each application or content site developed its own functionality and process, leading to more than 20 highly customized applications and/or sites today. Continuing down this path breeds redundant work and convoluted technical architecture. Join this webcast to learn how migrating the HR Web content platform to SharePoint Server 2007 is expected to provide a return on investment (ROI) of more than $10 million over three years and a reduction of 15 custom global HR Web sites.Language(s): English. Product(s): SharePoint Portal Server.Audience(s): Business Decision Maker. Duration: 60 MinutesStart Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Microsoft Webcast: Creating a Global Human Resources System Foundation with SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) EROL

7/24/2007

As an extension to the great tool that we provide, we have decided to add more functionality firstly in the format of a KPI BDC Web Part. Current using MOSS KPI's you can create a KPI on Excel Workbook data, List Data, SQL Server Analysis Data or Manually inputted KPI data. We thought that MOSS Power Users might actually want to base the KPI's on data retrieved by BDC. Home - BDC Meta Man Blog

7/20/2007

Deploy a SharePoint list template to SharePoint MySites - Ton Stegeman [MVP] weblog 6 step byThe last step I took was to create a solution deployment package. This makes it much easier to install all bits to the server. There are multiple items about creating and installing such a package, so I won’t show this here. I hope this post helps you if you have a similar scenario. I also use this same mechanism to deploy site templates (STP). Otherwise I hope it helps you realize SharePoint features are very valuable and powerful. Published Jul 10 2007, 08:11 PM by tonstegeman

7/17/2007

Mary Kay Inc, one of the largest direct selling skin care and color cosmetics companies in the world, was without a viable enterprise search application. After moving its US portal to Microsoft® SharePoint® Portal Server 2003, the company decided to upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePointer Server 2007 to leverage the content indexing and search platform functionality. The company now has robust, easy-to-use search functionality that will scale along with its global IT improvement and integration efforts.

7/15/2007

The Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) Records Management team is responsible for tracking the location and contents of some two million boxes of documents stored by Microsoft employees. The LCA Records Management team created an efficient tracking solution that provides employees with easy access to records information and offsets the need to handle all box inventory queries manually. Building on the power of Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 and Office InfoPath 2007, the solution uses forms and workflows to automate the collection of inventory data. The solution increases accuracy, enforces business rules, and simplifies access to collected inventory information, helping the LCA team to scale easily and manage the growth and demand for document retention companywide.

7/13/2007

Download details: Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 WorkflowThe Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) Records Management team is responsible for tracking the location and contents of some two million boxes of documents stored by Microsoft employees. The LCA Records Management team created an efficient tracking solution that provides employees with easy access to records information and offsets the need to handle all box inventory queries manually. Building on the power of Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 and Office InfoPath 2007, the solution uses forms and workflows to automate the collection of inventory data. The solution increases accuracy, enforces business rules, and simplifies access to collected inventory information, helping the LCA team to scale easily and manage the growth and demand for document retention companywide.

7/11/2007

MOSS Publication Scheduling - Collaboration Portal Template A great info by Kathy Hughes MVP. To enable the "Page Settings and Schedule" menu option on a site provisioned using the Collaboration Portal site template, simply enable scheduling of items in the site's Pages document library. To do this using the browser:- ...

By understanding which manageability controls are configurable for each component of the Windows SharePoint Services hierarchy, you can design a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 implementation that appropriately leverages these controls for the type of content that will be hosted.The white paper Supporting Information Architecture with Windows SharePoint Services Manageability Controls provides detailed guidance for determining how specific types of content can be managed effectively with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. (2 first articles...)

Thank you for expressing your interest in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 .We will notify you when further information is available!Thank you!The Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference Team

7/10/2007

Information Management Policy is new to SharePoint but not to the world of Document Management. Office SharePoint Server 2007 has added many new Document Management capabilities your applications can take advantage of. ...... Note: Please beware that after you have associated a policy with a content type and then make changes to the policy, the changes will not be reflected within the contentType until you un-associate and re-associate the policy with the content type. In addition, the label value will only be updated after policy changes if the item is updated. ...

7/07/2007

Go and see the video of Mike Gannotti's where he tells you how to use Sharepoint as a datasource for PopFly: (3 datas sources in connection - no code) If you wanna know what PopFly is read this little snippet from Channel9: "﻿You probably haven't heard of it, but you're also probably going to start hearing a lot about it in the near future. Popfly is being announced today - as I'm posting this, actually. To keep it short and simple so you can get right to watching the video, Popfly makes it easy for non-devs to create web sites, mashups, and more. Drag, drag, click - you've got a Flikr + Virtual Earth mashup. You can even point and click your way to a Vista Gadget. " (source Robin Meure).

tonstegeman's blog: "This post describes an issue we were having using the SharePoint PageFieldFilter webpart in combination with a Lookup field. First the issue is explained, then a solution is provided."You can find a WSP file containing a working version of the webpart. If you don’t know what to do with a wsp file, start looking at Chris Johnson’s blog, or use the SharePoint Solution Installer. Attached to this post, you will also find the full code for the webpart. Both are in the same ZIP file. Do whatever you like to do with them, but please let me know if you use them and what you think of it. Might give me some ideas to improve it. Enjoy!

This article is an excerpt from Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem, from Microsoft Press (ISBN 9780735623682, copyright Microsoft Press 2007, all rights reserved). No part of this chapter may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, electrostatic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. This excerpt is part 1 of 2.In this chapter, I’ll start with a discussion of the architecture that makes it all happen behind the scenes and will continue with topics that will give you an understanding of how, as a developer, you can start customizing and extending the different features involved. I also refer to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion (Microsoft Press) authored by Bill English, for more detail of the topics related to the administration and configuration of the index and search engines."

This article is an excerpt from Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem, from Microsoft Press (ISBN 9780735623682, copyright Microsoft Press 2007, all rights reserved). No part of this chapter may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, electrostatic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. This excerpt is part 2 of 2.

This Support WebCast will demonstrate how to connect Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 Contact Lists and Document Libraries to Outlook 2007.It will also show a two-way synchronization between Contact Lists and Outlook 2007. The session will also talk about updating Document Library changes to the server. P. Erol GIRAUDYhttp://clubmoss2007.org/

6/29/2007

Bob Fox one of the SharePoint MVPs recently included some screencasts on his blog. Watch for other screencasts coming down road. He's listened to me, I bet he would listen to you if you had suggestions for him.

Came across Asif's (MCT) site http://sharepoint-screencasts.com/ (what a novel domain name!) nicely categorized as using a SharePoint site to post them. The list below is a snapshot of his list as of this posting... Watch it for a best management of MOSS. EROL

6/19/2007

Completing the "Fantastic 40" – 20 remaining application templates now available, plus more!As I had alluded to about 3 weeks ago, the 20 remaining Application Templates of the “Fantastic 40” are now available for download! These server admin templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provide more enhanced functionality than the first 20 templates, including some with built-in workflows, heavily customized lists and libraries, and advanced data views. ... EROL

Train with Microsoft architects and top notch industry speakers and also network with your colleagues to build a valuable resource of peers Co-located with SharePoint Connections this fall will be: Microsoft® ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio Connections, Mobile Connections, SQL Server Connections, Windows Connections and Exchange Connections, each with their own set of tracks and speakers. As an attendee of SharePoint Connections you may attend the sessions at any of the concurrent events.

In Excel 2003 you were able to sync amendments both from a Excel 2003 spreadsheet to a SharePoint List and from a SharePoint List to an Excel 2003 spreadsheet. But in Excel 2007 this is no longer the case...

6/14/2007

the goal of this paper is to communicate the logical approach that might occur during development and deployment. Many features in this paper are not applicable or available when using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

6/06/2007

"Download session presentations and resourcesThank you to everyone who attended the APAC SharePoint Conference. The webcasts, blogs, wikis, session presentations and resources found here have been taken from the recent APAC SharePoint Conference 2007. Feel free to browse and review the content and download for your future reference.Download session presentations and resourcesThank you to everyone who attended the APAC SharePoint Conference. The webcasts, blogs, wikis, session presentations and resources found here have been taken from the recent APAC SharePoint Conference 2007. Feel free to browse and review the content and download for your future reference."

6/05/2007

It's official! The SharePoint Conference 2008 will be held on March 2-6, 2008 in Seattle at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center.What You Can Expect:Keynote sessions by senior Microsoft executives60+ sessions across several diverse tracksHands-on and instructor led labsGo to http://www.mssharepointconference.com/ and submit your e-mail address, so you can be notified with important updates like when the conference website goes live on MOSS 2007.----

"This Management Pack quickly brings any failures or configuration problems to your attention, which increases the availability and performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007. This Management Pack also provides the knowledge and expertise you need to leverage Operations Manager 2007 and get an immediate return on your investment.

6/04/2007

This post is the first of a three-part series on building a blog in SharePoint from the ground up. In this series, we consider topics related to access control and anonymous access in particular, user interface customization and blogging from Word 2007.

We will also provide how-to guidelines for less-than-intuitive tasks. The access control and user interface customization topics are applicable to any SharePoint site.

6/03/2007

This post is the first of a three-part series on building a blog in SharePoint from the ground up. In this series, we consider topics related to access control and anonymous access in particular, user interface customization and blogging from Word 2007.

We will also provide how-to guidelines for less-than-intuitive tasks.

The access control and user interface customization topics are applicable to any SharePoint site.----P. Erol GIRAUDYPdt Club MOSShttp://clubmoss2007.org

Although we don’t have any updates beyond the aforementioned blog entry to announce right now, a few of our partners have been successful in helping customers implement accessibility compliant websites such as Wise Woman, and Plymouth Hospitals.

The SharePoint product group recognizes the importance of accessibility, especially for Internet facing public websites that have been built with SharePoint technology. To provide a channel for dialogue between our customers and partners with us as well as amongst themselves, I’m pleased to announce the creation of the Microsoft hosted SharePoint – Accessibility online forum.

With HiSoftware’s announcement last week of AccRepair for SharePoint Designer and in conjunction with AccMonitor, many customers will be able to design and implement accessibility compliant SharePoint based websites without costly consulting services or development resources. The following guest blog entry is written by Robert B. Yonaitis, Chief Technology Officer at HiSoftware.----P. Erol GIRAUDYPdt Club MOSShttp://clubmoss2007.org

He makes sure that the largest SharePoint installation in the world keeps working. Mark Swenson is also a program manager in Microsoft IT.

His job is making sure that our intranet search is working, including things like making sure people can't find documents that they shouldn't have rights to. I sat down with them to talk about what it takes to migrate, and index, and upgrade 12 terabytes of data to the latest version.

If that wasn’t challenging enough, they started working with the products before they were the latest version, when they were still under development.

Their experience shook out a lot of bugs that were addressed before the real world had to deal with them. In addition to deployment and migration, we chatted about the backup and restore procedures for this multiple terabyte installation, and what happens when you tell everyone in the org to go ahead and create their own SharePoint sites. (in an outtake that I, um, took out, I asked the guys for their picks for the SuperBowl, and got one of the team names wrong. minus 100 cool points for me).----P. Erol GIRAUDYPdt Club MOSShttp://clubmoss2007.org

6/02/2007

At Tech·Ed 2007, IT professionals and developers from around the world are coming together to find out how Microsoft and its partners are tackling the toughest challenges in computing, and to get the tools and training to make an immediate impact for their businesses. Learn more about what’s in store for Tech·Ed 2007.